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The Woodworking Guild will be meeting as scheduled at the Panera in Oakland (3401 Boulevard of the Allies, Pittsburgh, PA 15213) at 7pm to discuss our plans for the next workshop day (scheduled for December 8th), the results of recent joinery and sharpening workshops, and plans for the future.
Please join us!
Last month, we discussed tools and woodworking at our Thursday meeting. Then, at our shop day, we practiced cutting dovetail joints by hand.
Our next shop day is Sunday, November 17th, from 10am to 2pm in Ishiyama’s shop. This shop day will be our long-awaited sharpening workshop. Learn to sharpen your chisels and knives by hand with a stone for better results on whatever materials you work. We’ll discuss jigs, papers, grinders, polishers, and strops; and do some “before and after” tests.
Our next planning meeting is on Thursday, November 21st, from 7pm to 9pm at the Oakland Panera. We’ll make some plans for our December shop day, as well as discuss what tools are on our “want” lists for the holidays. Coal is just a one element away from being high carbon steel!
Tomorrow, October 24th, at 7pm we will be having a planning meeting at the Oakland Panera to show off some recent book acquisitions, browse some photos of Japanese buildings, and discuss what we’ll be working on…
on Sunday, October 27th, from 10am to 2pm at Ishiyama’s house. The current plan is to work on building our hand-cut joinery skills.
Due to the Barony Meeting, we will pause the workshop at 12:45pm to give us all time to proceed over to the meeting. Ishiyama’s shop is only a few miles from the Washington Boulevard practice site.
If there is still work to be done, we can return to the shop once the meeting is over.
Join us at the Oakland Panera from 7pm to 9pm tonight, June 20th, to discuss life after banner stands and your personal woodworking projects. Please check around the rooms of the Panera if you don’t see us; we might be in the back.
This is just a reminder that the Woodworking Guild will be having a workshop day tomorrow, June 2nd, to complete the banner stands.
Join us at Ishiyama Shonagon’s house from 10am to 2pm for sanding, finishing, and gluing.
Contact Ishiyama via email (woodworking at debatablelands dot org) or by phone (412 596 2204) if you need directions.
We had another planning meeting on Thursday, May 23rd at the Panera in Oakland. We discussed the state of the banner stand project, possible future projects, and the meeting schedule going forward.
The banner stands are coming along, but the pieces still need to be sanded, finished, and assembled. To that end, we will be having another workshop day at Ishiyama Shonagon’s shop.
